Fossil Record
Geologists and other scientists use fossils to correlate the ages of different rock strata (thin layers or beds of rock that differ in some way from adjacent layers) in different places ...
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Fossil Record
The fossil record is the record of life on Earth as it is preserved in rock as fossils. The fossil record provides evidence of when and how life began on the planet, what types of organi...
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Fossilization of Bacteria
Studies of fossilization of bacteria provide an indication of the age of ancient bacteria and of the rate of geological and geochemical processes on ancient Earth. Fossils of...
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Fossils and Fossilization
A fossil is the remains of an ancient life form—plant or animal—or its traces, such as nesting grounds, footprints, worm trails, or the impressions left by leav...
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Fossil
Fossils are the remains, traces or impressions of prehistoric organisms. There are wholly intact animals which have been preserved such as the wooly mammoth (discussed below) or the thousands o...
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Fossilization of Bacteria
Studies of fossilization of bacteria provide an indication of the age of ancient bacteria. Fossils of cyanobacteria or "blue-green algae" have been recovered from rocks that ...
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Fossilization
Fossils are preserved evidence of once-living organisms—typically in sediment or rock. Body fossils are preserved remains of an organism or indications of remains; trace fossils ar...
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Since a young age, children have learned about dinosaurs. Whether visiting various museums or watching videotapes of movies such as The Land Before Time, the child takes away at least on major messa...
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Fossil Record
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Fossilization of Bacteria
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